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Getty / The Atlantic The Senate Filibuster Is Another Monument to White Supremacy
Tear it down.
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Library of Congress / The Atlantic Congress Needs to Be Way, Way Bigger
Members of the House simply cannot adequately respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Democrats Are Answering the Wrong Questions
By focusing on bizarre hypotheticals, candidates keep falling into the traps we’ve seen before.
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Associated Press How America’s First Women Voters Lost the Franchise
The president’s claim that voters “put on a different shirt, come in, and vote again” echoed an odd 19th-century episode.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Donna Brazile's Tell-All Is Troubling For the Wrong Reasons
Instead of contributing to our understanding of what happened in 2016, Hacks muddies the waters.
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Andrew Harnik / AP How Donald Trump Broke the Al Smith Dinner
It isn’t the only democratic institution that finds itself in danger.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Sketchy Ethics of Donald Trump Jr.’s Speech
The borrowed lines included in his keynote address at the Republican National Convention are a sign of what the next four years could look like.
